Volume # 28: Internet of Things

This issue of Volume explores architects’ roles in the age of the internet. For us at ArchDaily, this is a topic we find very interesting. We ask all the architects we interview how the internet has changed their practice; their answers nicely complement this issue. (You can check them out in our interview section). I, personally, enjoyed the section titled “Tracing Concepts.” It illustrates the influence design ideas have had on the computing world and vise versa. For example, it details how Christopher Alexander’s ideas about design patterns has spurred on object-oriented programming and bottom-up design solutions.

128 Shadow Project / Nortd Labs 130 The Color of Ideas / Tuur van Balen 134 Meeting the Middle / Ruairi Glynn interviewed by Vincent Schipper 138 Virt-Oral History: A Story from Seven on Seven / Justin Fowler 140 All That is material Will Be Standard and All that Is Personalized Will Be Virtual / Eduard Sansho Pou 142 The Tragic Lost / Vincent Schipper and Christiaan Fruneaux 148 The Act of Disconnection: Just Because I Do Not Send a Message within a Matter of Minutes Does Not Mean I Am Dead / Amelia Borg and Timothy Moore 152 Unlocking the Secrets of a ‘Forbidden City’ / Lorna Goulden 155 21st Century City 156 Data and Owner / Usman Haque and Ed Borden 158 Digital-Material Practices: Adaptive Architecture for an Idealization of the Soft / Mette Ramsgard Thomsen